Thank you for this Tessa, I take it as a good sign when I can't even tell who's side you're on. I just posted an analysis of Dr. Malone's lawsuit against the Breggins--no insider info, just looking at his own words and the logic of it. I'm just finishing the substack version now and I'll link to your article in it. In the end, I think we're in agreement--that a difference of opinions on ideology is not grounds for defamation. Here's the YT, Who is Robert Malone, Really? https://youtu.be/bgmntsarsOw. I'll post the Substack link when it's up.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in some time.
Thank you for feeding the soul. It’s like a barren wasteland out there, at times.
Your reminder to cultivate compassion, understanding, patience, and love—all the while maintaining one’s integrity and devotion to truth is a true balm. Good juju in a time of dark influences.
I feel better having read your words. I thank you again for your wonderful work.
I read the transcript of Dr. Mercola's recent interview with Dr. Malone over on that site. I was very curious as to what Dr. Malone had in mind for the "better future coming". Why Dr. Malone, of all people, interested me was precisely because of his use of the term "mass formation psychosis" which to me, though largely undefined and so somewhat of a slogan, perhaps could, if worked out correctly, coincide in meaning exactly to the term "psychic epidemic" used by the great psychiatrist/psychologist Carl Jung in, for example, his essay "The Undiscovered Self", first published around 1958.
Anyway, Malone's proposal for a better future is essentially something called decentralization, which to me does not seem to relate to fixing the vulnerability to a "mass formation psychosis" or a "psychic epidemic".
It has been well known scientifically for over a hundred years that we each have a shadow, a mental shadow. We are each a combination of light and shadow, and oscillate often between sense and senselessness. We generally each first recognize something that is in our shadow in a convenient "other", another person or collective entity. We literally project our own deficiency onto something outside of us, and the only way to improve the current situation is to have each of us mind our own shadow first, for the more we can do that the more likely we will see reality relatively objectively. We each are the only one that can integrate contents in our own shadow because we are each configured differently. What works for me most likely does not work for you, so I cannot assume I know what is best for you, let alone for everyone. And this shadow work is extremely difficult and often goes against the grain. However, Jung believed this individual way, which he called individuation, was the only way for the world to improve.
Tessa, you seem to have mastered a lot of this intuitively for yourself through your life's suffering. Take care. :)
Love the last section of your post it really summed up the situation.
We overreached ourselves (with rational thinking), we were not content with the idea thinking rationally helped banish many unnecessary woes and mistakes, but we thought we could understand everything. Once you think you can understand everything your chances of understanding anything are remote (greatly reduced). This has been taken to hubristic extremes.
I exist in the covid/narrative dissident world and I have not yet encountered this big fight you are referring to. So maybe it is not such a big fight outside of some small intellectual circles.
Anyway I support what you're saying 100%, and I don't care for the "cancelling" tendencies of some of the people who claim to oppose cancel culture.
I think the key take away from this post might be that we should be more tolerant and pick our friends and enemies. wisely. "Think before you speak." should be written above the door of every classroom.
You wrote
" I wish upon them to eat each other the soonest and I have no fear of them."
This seems to be a reasonable wish for them that I can buy into. Sometimes I have darker thoughts on how we should handle them but I do not voice them because I do not want to become a catalyst for more negative emotion or acts and also see that my sensible side would not act on such thoughts even though I might feel the evil folk did deserve it and others might be less restrained and creative. Your middle ground is nice, let them be the pox on each other and leave us alone.
In light of the above perhaps the resistance has partially missed an opportunity these last 3 to 300 years. It strikes me that by default the 'elite' have more power than us and have little fear or us. Perhaps we want to do to them what they do to us. This idea did just come to be while reading your thoughts so you are an equal creator. I propose that every resistance fighter spend a portion of their effort on seeking handy ways to divide the enemy and pit them against each other. Not easy but perhaps it would be a million fold force multiplier if we get corrupt leaders to mistrust other leaders or industrialists to suspect other industrialists. If we could find every instance where Musk does something Bezos will not like and make a meme. Every thing that Macron criticises Trudeau about we make into big news. We keep publishing flaws of the elite as mentioned by the elite. Sure most of it is part of the theatre to make it look like they are not on the same team but 1:100 we might stumble on something that really gets under their skin, a promise made through the WEF and publicly broken, a industry taxed that was supposed to receive subsidies, something that touched them in their only sense organ, the wallet
Thanks for another excellent article Tessa. What we certainly don''t need is more division. I work hard at being a good listener and trying not to be judgmental leaving that to a higher power. It does require constant vigilance and a deliberate choice and commitment to love for all. It is not easy.
I, too, have experienced tortures in my life. I went on to learn martial arts, meditation, and other fighting arts and that helped me. Before Malone ever talked about mass formation psychosis on Joe Rogan's show, I wrote a piece called Utopian Madness. I do think the elite manipulate the masses through mass psychosis but it is brought on by menticide. I think perhaps some of us, yourself included, are just too strong to be affected by it.
Joost Meerloo explains about menticide in his book, The Rape of the Mind:
“Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion through which a [ruling class] can imprint [their] own opportunistic thoughts upon the minds of those [they] plan to use and destroy.”
In order to accomplish this, the elite must manufacture waves of fear within the populace. Each wave is followed by a period of relative calm, but after each calm, the fear is brought back even stronger next time. We’ve experienced such a period of calm this summer. A respite from our prisons. We were allowed to go mask-less, to travel a bit more, gyms reopened. And now, everything is even worse. By the winter the waves of terror, in the form of ever worsening news, conflicting reports and downright lies, will become overwhelming.
Confusion has resulted in the minds of all of us experiencing these onslaughts. Desperately, we try to decipher the strange and terrifying things that are happening around us and to us.
Meerloo further explains:
“Each wave of terrorizing . . . creates its effects more easily – after a breathing spell – than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experience. Morality becomes lower and lower, and the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up.”
Emotion, without reasoned thought to temper it, becomes the automatic response and, we feel, justifiably so. Meerloo again:
“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal … than logic and reason. While the [people] are still searching for a reasonable counterargument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them]with another.”
If you feel like you are always one step behind the game, you are. We keep repeating to one another in horrified fashion “I can’t believe this is happening.” And the more we say that the more it normalizes the realization that these things we “can’t believe are happening” are happening. There becomes no answer other than to accept it.
Unless you live in a hut in the middle of the Amazon Forest (and that’s beginning to look very appealing) you cannot escape the onslaught. Every single person with a smart phone gives in to this repeated propaganda, even those who think they don’t, because unless we throw away our devices, we are under its power to constantly influence us. And I mean constantly. Very few people ever turn off their devices anymore. We have learned to be connected twenty-four/seven. Throwing away our devices is not an option for anyone who wants to survive let alone excel in modern society.
This realization creates the “killing of the mind.” No longer do people pause and reflect. This is a useless waste of time. There is nothing to reflect about and no one to reflect with.
Even those of us who think we are rebelling, continually repeat the same mantras on forums like Twitter of “I can’t believe this is happening.”
Thank you for this Tessa, I take it as a good sign when I can't even tell who's side you're on. I just posted an analysis of Dr. Malone's lawsuit against the Breggins--no insider info, just looking at his own words and the logic of it. I'm just finishing the substack version now and I'll link to your article in it. In the end, I think we're in agreement--that a difference of opinions on ideology is not grounds for defamation. Here's the YT, Who is Robert Malone, Really? https://youtu.be/bgmntsarsOw. I'll post the Substack link when it's up.
This is one of the best things I’ve read in some time.
Thank you for feeding the soul. It’s like a barren wasteland out there, at times.
Your reminder to cultivate compassion, understanding, patience, and love—all the while maintaining one’s integrity and devotion to truth is a true balm. Good juju in a time of dark influences.
I feel better having read your words. I thank you again for your wonderful work.
with Love, TFish
I read the transcript of Dr. Mercola's recent interview with Dr. Malone over on that site. I was very curious as to what Dr. Malone had in mind for the "better future coming". Why Dr. Malone, of all people, interested me was precisely because of his use of the term "mass formation psychosis" which to me, though largely undefined and so somewhat of a slogan, perhaps could, if worked out correctly, coincide in meaning exactly to the term "psychic epidemic" used by the great psychiatrist/psychologist Carl Jung in, for example, his essay "The Undiscovered Self", first published around 1958.
Anyway, Malone's proposal for a better future is essentially something called decentralization, which to me does not seem to relate to fixing the vulnerability to a "mass formation psychosis" or a "psychic epidemic".
It has been well known scientifically for over a hundred years that we each have a shadow, a mental shadow. We are each a combination of light and shadow, and oscillate often between sense and senselessness. We generally each first recognize something that is in our shadow in a convenient "other", another person or collective entity. We literally project our own deficiency onto something outside of us, and the only way to improve the current situation is to have each of us mind our own shadow first, for the more we can do that the more likely we will see reality relatively objectively. We each are the only one that can integrate contents in our own shadow because we are each configured differently. What works for me most likely does not work for you, so I cannot assume I know what is best for you, let alone for everyone. And this shadow work is extremely difficult and often goes against the grain. However, Jung believed this individual way, which he called individuation, was the only way for the world to improve.
Tessa, you seem to have mastered a lot of this intuitively for yourself through your life's suffering. Take care. :)
Love the last section of your post it really summed up the situation.
We overreached ourselves (with rational thinking), we were not content with the idea thinking rationally helped banish many unnecessary woes and mistakes, but we thought we could understand everything. Once you think you can understand everything your chances of understanding anything are remote (greatly reduced). This has been taken to hubristic extremes.
all that said, after 3 years of mass psychosis, I feel like that pig out of water.. swimming in it
there is no friendly way to exit this trauma for me. this is not the same world I grew up in, we live in a horror story.
When we become hateful and intolerant we become the symbol of the very thing we oppose. Tessa has described this beautifully.
You are a beautiful soul! Much love to you. Thank you for sharing your insight, information and love.
I exist in the covid/narrative dissident world and I have not yet encountered this big fight you are referring to. So maybe it is not such a big fight outside of some small intellectual circles.
Anyway I support what you're saying 100%, and I don't care for the "cancelling" tendencies of some of the people who claim to oppose cancel culture.
This hits home to my heart, gonna have to read and re-read it. Wow.
Thank you. Your humility is palpable.
I think the key take away from this post might be that we should be more tolerant and pick our friends and enemies. wisely. "Think before you speak." should be written above the door of every classroom.
You wrote
" I wish upon them to eat each other the soonest and I have no fear of them."
This seems to be a reasonable wish for them that I can buy into. Sometimes I have darker thoughts on how we should handle them but I do not voice them because I do not want to become a catalyst for more negative emotion or acts and also see that my sensible side would not act on such thoughts even though I might feel the evil folk did deserve it and others might be less restrained and creative. Your middle ground is nice, let them be the pox on each other and leave us alone.
In light of the above perhaps the resistance has partially missed an opportunity these last 3 to 300 years. It strikes me that by default the 'elite' have more power than us and have little fear or us. Perhaps we want to do to them what they do to us. This idea did just come to be while reading your thoughts so you are an equal creator. I propose that every resistance fighter spend a portion of their effort on seeking handy ways to divide the enemy and pit them against each other. Not easy but perhaps it would be a million fold force multiplier if we get corrupt leaders to mistrust other leaders or industrialists to suspect other industrialists. If we could find every instance where Musk does something Bezos will not like and make a meme. Every thing that Macron criticises Trudeau about we make into big news. We keep publishing flaws of the elite as mentioned by the elite. Sure most of it is part of the theatre to make it look like they are not on the same team but 1:100 we might stumble on something that really gets under their skin, a promise made through the WEF and publicly broken, a industry taxed that was supposed to receive subsidies, something that touched them in their only sense organ, the wallet
Thanks for another excellent article Tessa. What we certainly don''t need is more division. I work hard at being a good listener and trying not to be judgmental leaving that to a higher power. It does require constant vigilance and a deliberate choice and commitment to love for all. It is not easy.
Well said, Tessa. Appreciate your voice of reason very much!
I enjoyed this read and relate to it.
I, too, have experienced tortures in my life. I went on to learn martial arts, meditation, and other fighting arts and that helped me. Before Malone ever talked about mass formation psychosis on Joe Rogan's show, I wrote a piece called Utopian Madness. I do think the elite manipulate the masses through mass psychosis but it is brought on by menticide. I think perhaps some of us, yourself included, are just too strong to be affected by it.
Joost Meerloo explains about menticide in his book, The Rape of the Mind:
“Menticide is an old crime against the human mind and spirit but systematized anew. It is an organized system of psychological intervention and judicial perversion through which a [ruling class] can imprint [their] own opportunistic thoughts upon the minds of those [they] plan to use and destroy.”
In order to accomplish this, the elite must manufacture waves of fear within the populace. Each wave is followed by a period of relative calm, but after each calm, the fear is brought back even stronger next time. We’ve experienced such a period of calm this summer. A respite from our prisons. We were allowed to go mask-less, to travel a bit more, gyms reopened. And now, everything is even worse. By the winter the waves of terror, in the form of ever worsening news, conflicting reports and downright lies, will become overwhelming.
Confusion has resulted in the minds of all of us experiencing these onslaughts. Desperately, we try to decipher the strange and terrifying things that are happening around us and to us.
Meerloo further explains:
“Each wave of terrorizing . . . creates its effects more easily – after a breathing spell – than the one that preceded it because people are still disturbed by their previous experience. Morality becomes lower and lower, and the psychological effects of each new propaganda campaign become stronger; it reaches a public already softened up.”
Emotion, without reasoned thought to temper it, becomes the automatic response and, we feel, justifiably so. Meerloo again:
“Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal … than logic and reason. While the [people] are still searching for a reasonable counterargument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them]with another.”
If you feel like you are always one step behind the game, you are. We keep repeating to one another in horrified fashion “I can’t believe this is happening.” And the more we say that the more it normalizes the realization that these things we “can’t believe are happening” are happening. There becomes no answer other than to accept it.
Unless you live in a hut in the middle of the Amazon Forest (and that’s beginning to look very appealing) you cannot escape the onslaught. Every single person with a smart phone gives in to this repeated propaganda, even those who think they don’t, because unless we throw away our devices, we are under its power to constantly influence us. And I mean constantly. Very few people ever turn off their devices anymore. We have learned to be connected twenty-four/seven. Throwing away our devices is not an option for anyone who wants to survive let alone excel in modern society.
This realization creates the “killing of the mind.” No longer do people pause and reflect. This is a useless waste of time. There is nothing to reflect about and no one to reflect with.
Even those of us who think we are rebelling, continually repeat the same mantras on forums like Twitter of “I can’t believe this is happening.”
More here: https://khmezek.substack.com/p/utopian-madness
This is beautiful. ❤ I'm so sorry for what you went through Tessa. 🙏😪⚘
How are you able to have Love without Fear?
I'm afraid every day for my son. I attribute it to my love for him; the same love that would wish it was me suffering instead of him.
One of your best posts.
Brava!
Really well written.
Very timely for me.
I’m dealing with an emotional vacuum, dark hole of a person.
The type you described as the friend but starts the darkness …
I realized a couple days ago, that dealing with those that only want to forever be in drama, without solutions, and getting irritated.
is as futile as getting angry at the vacuum cord getting tangled around the dog bowl.
Best to just untangle and get on with it . Walk away.